Utilitarianism and deontological theory have their similarities and differences in the philosophical world. The greatest happiness principle, used by utilitarianism, is that an act is right as far as it tends to produce the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people. Happiness is equal to the pleasure and the absence of pain. Bentham’s idea of pleasure falls under three points; intensity (how strong), duration (how long lasting), and the propinquity (how soon). Later Mill’s added to the utilitarianism by distinguishing the qualities of pleasure. These pleasures can be categorized as higher and lower pleasures. Higher pleasure can consist of intellectual and involves serving others. Lower pleasures consist of sensate and selfish.
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Utilitarianism states that if the lie assist with receiving a greater amount of happiness, it is permissible to lie. But when seeing it with Kant 's theory, it is wrong what 's so ever to lie to anyone. The theory deals with the intentions and the motives of a person 's action, not the aftermath. An action where utilitarian theory is acceptable is in the situation of the transplant. In the course of events, when killing an innocent person for an organ transplant to save five lives, it is okay to do so because the amount of lives saved is greater than the one dead. The advantage of this is that we assume that it 's okay to do the action if it makes society happy. We don 't look at anything else but the idea of happiness. A disadvantage of this theory is that we don 't account for the long term effect of the action we do to help the happines. In the transplant example we don 't see that killing an innocent person is detrimental to the family and the loved ones tied to that person. We are the type of people who see the greater outcome over the long run of actions it causes. If I was the one person innocently being killed, I wouldn 't see it as the greater effect in helping the 5 lives. In that moment the concept of my life to myself I’m greater than the five that will die due to my resistance of my life and organs to save them. I could be …show more content…
The main objection for utilitarianism is the fourth objection, the problem of sheer numbers that it seems possible that the calculation will tell you that doing X is right even though we know that doing X is wrong. In the ramification of it violating our common sense of morality. For Kant 's deontological theory there are four objections but one of them stands out to me. The first objection states that the consequences do matter. In this we can compare it to the chainsaw theme. Kant 's seems to say that you must keep your promise and return the chainsaw since you can 't fail to break that promise and lie. But we know that if we return the chain saw we understand that it is a wrong thing to do since it leads to bad
Utilitarianism states that if the lie assist with receiving a greater amount of happiness, it is permissible to lie. But when seeing it with Kant 's theory, it is wrong what 's so ever to lie to anyone. The theory deals with the intentions and the motives of a person 's action, not the aftermath. An action where utilitarian theory is acceptable is in the situation of the transplant. In the course of events, when killing an innocent person for an organ transplant to save five lives, it is okay to do so because the amount of lives saved is greater than the one dead. The advantage of this is that we assume that it 's okay to do the action if it makes society happy. We don 't look at anything else but the idea of happiness. A disadvantage of this theory is that we don 't account for the long term effect of the action we do to help the happines. In the transplant example we don 't see that killing an innocent person is detrimental to the family and the loved ones tied to that person. We are the type of people who see the greater outcome over the long run of actions it causes. If I was the one person innocently being killed, I wouldn 't see it as the greater effect in helping the 5 lives. In that moment the concept of my life to myself I’m greater than the five that will die due to my resistance of my life and organs to save them. I could be …show more content…
The main objection for utilitarianism is the fourth objection, the problem of sheer numbers that it seems possible that the calculation will tell you that doing X is right even though we know that doing X is wrong. In the ramification of it violating our common sense of morality. For Kant 's deontological theory there are four objections but one of them stands out to me. The first objection states that the consequences do matter. In this we can compare it to the chainsaw theme. Kant 's seems to say that you must keep your promise and return the chainsaw since you can 't fail to break that promise and lie. But we know that if we return the chain saw we understand that it is a wrong thing to do since it leads to bad